Second Life

Ok, I never thought I'd do it, but I created an avatar in Second Life. At first I thought I'd get bored with it right away and abandon it, but I've been having fun meeting new people, having virtual sex (not quite as good as the real thing), dancing, etc. Basically everything I don't do in real life. as you can see from my picture, I'm very suave looking and can dance better than John Travolta (before he started believing in Xenu and gained 200 pounds).

The pic was taken at Club Cristi which is a pretty cool place. Cristi (the owner) and most of the patrons are pretty nice, so if you are in SL, drop by.

Trojan in fake monster.com e-mail

The other day I received an e-mail that looked and "acted" like it was from monster.com. In the e-mail it said that to keep access to my account after Dec. 18th, I had to download a program. A few years ago, it might have seemed like a legitimate thing for a company to create a stand-alone application to provide their customers with the latest data and a wide range of features.

It didn't take very much for me to realize that this was probably a phishing e-mail. After all, I'm a web developer and I know first-hand that anything that monster.com would have someone do with a stand-alone app could easily be achieved in a web browser. Not to mention that the application they wanted me to download wasn't being hosted at monster.com, it was something like "resume-monster.com".

I contacted monster's tech support via a live chat session (with someone in India, of course) and he/she confirmed that it was truly a phishing e-mail. More than likely, the app was created by some jerk that would get people to install it and it would (most-likely) capture log in information, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.

I hope the creator of the e-mail gets a big boil on the head of his tiny manhood.